Seamus Byrne

Been ages - Congrats on toddler mode! Hope you’re doing great!

If it really happens I suggest Tudyk plays Jayne now and nobody even references anything about the casting swap.

Screenshot of Apple ScreenTime widget, showing 25h 44m. Tracking shows a graph of hourly bars, some of which go beyond, 2 hours per hour, and it is just past 4pm. Final text reads: Productivity & Finance 4h 6m, Social 3h 8m, and Utilities 50m.

My ScreenTime tracking is so drunk. Or I’ve found a way to triple my space-time before afternoon tea.

It is weird that the only vibrant colour is this one. I kinda thought we’d get more bright colours but it’s the usual muted tones and… this.

I often use fast.com these days because it’s on Netflix infra so it’s a pretty good real world indicator and it’s SOOO much cleaner to look at for a quick “is this connection OK?” test.

Cartoon titled "know the work rules". The first panel, labeled "appropriate" depicts Garfield the cat in a business suit leaning around the edge of a cubicle and pointing to a woman at her desk while saying, "coffee lasagna Mondays am I right?" to which the woman responds, hands clasped together, "awww you're so funny" The second panel, labeled "inappropriate", depicts a far side cow leaning around the edge of the same cubicle and speaking with a word bubble which contains only the shapes of the 4 cow tools. The woman fearfully picks up the Phone and says, "hello , complaint department??!"

know the funny papers rules

Quote from Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Sooner or later people believe writers rather than the government.

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How do you keep a game like World of Warcraft that has had ten previous expansions, fresh? 🌑
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This colour palette is wild.

In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.

It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.

My months-long investigation 👇

I’m still thinking about Albert after you shared that clip. So much of the best of it is the bit players and ensemble team. The journey, not the destination, etc…

Big batteries are now outcompeting gas in the grid – and gas-rich Western Australia is at the forefront Gas was long thought to be essential as a backup for a clean energy grid. But enormous growth in grid-scale batteries has changed the game.

Big batteries are now outcompeting gas in the grid – and gas-rich Western Australia is at the forefront
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Everyone says “what the fuck just happened?” on a regular basis in that show. Some people say it in awe and others in frustration. Both pretty legitimate.

“We are not the same” meme, I guess.

I adore it too but it sounds like it will not be your kind of thing.

They talk about their own stuff fairly often but they have all the greatest guests imaginable. It’s a solid “these are the kinds of people who should have podcasts” because they really know their shit and they know everyone and have the respect to get anyone on as a guest.

Yes - John August (writer of Go) and Craig Mazin (writer of comedy sequels before writing Chernobyl) have had a brilliant screenwriting show for about 15 years. They just released the best book on screenwriting ever based on transcripts from the show.

Do you listen to Scriptnotes?

So it should dip for a while, hit an equilibrium and then go harder than the other one? Someone should tell the numbers guy that’s even BETTER!

Having just been revisiting Liquid Modernity and related texts I am very enamoured with the Emulsified Modernity idea!

The Mighty Milkshake Ducks

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Next he'll welcome the Central Park Rangers from Elf.

I'm with Harry.

You are wrong about Forgotten Realms set. I’m sure it was definitely very recent.

Felt like it moved off the main pop-up list in October, but maybe I am remembering wrong because time goes faster now I'm old.

Family plan increase felt reasonable (+$1/month). It's been ages since they increased a price (that I can remember).

Checkmate.

Sometimes the sixth-best reason is the one that wins over the most hearts and minds.